There was, until 2009, another suffragan bishop, the Bishop of Maidstone, but it was decided in November 2010 that no further appointments would be made to that post. Two further suffragans whose sees are located in the diocese – Ebbsfleet and Richborough – are provincial episcopal visitors with a focus more wide-ranging than the local diocese. On 4 December 2014, it was announced that the see of Maidstone would be filled again, in order to provide a further provincial episcopal visitor for particular conservative evangelical members of the Church who take a minority view on "headship".